{"title":"Mark Haddon","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003eMark Haddon\u003c\/strong\u003e. You'll find coming of age here. Popular titles include \u003cem\u003eThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCurious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Play\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Porpoise\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for ages 3 and up. Shop all our Mark Haddon books below, delivered across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780099450252","title":"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time","description":"OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD\n \n The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.\n \n The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.","brand":"PUBLISHER STOCK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32039728283763,"sku":"9780099450252","price":190.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-mark-haddon-15208027095155.jpg?v=1638054538"},{"product_id":"9780099572831","title":"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time","description":"Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them'\n \n This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christopher decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery story becomes more complicated than he could have ever predicted.\n \n BACKSTORY- Meet the author and learn about the background to Christopher's story.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32039761838195,"sku":"9780099572831","price":238.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-mark-haddon-15208125071475.jpg?v=1638054540"},{"product_id":"9780007274765","title":"The Sea Of Tranquility","description":"","brand":"READERS WAREHOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39499922014323,"sku":"9780007274765","price":109.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/9780007274765-_1.jpg?v=1752709083"},{"product_id":"9781529929188","title":"Dogs and Monsters","description":"From the \"terrifyingly talented\" (The Times, UK) author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise, eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of loveGreek myths have fascinated people for millennia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and sees them anew.In \"The Quiet Limit of the World\" Haddon imagines Tithonus' life as he slowly ages over thousands of years, turning the cautionary tale of tempting the gods into a spellbinding meditation on witnessing death from the outside, and ultimately, how carnal love evolves into something richer and more poignant with time. In \"The Mother’s Story,\" Haddon takes the myth of the minotaur in his labyrinth, in which the beast is the spawn of the monstrous lust of the king's wife Pasiphae, and turns it into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child, and the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. In \"D.O.G.Z.\" the story of Actaeon, who was turned into a stag after glimpsing the naked goddess Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about the continuum of human and animal behavior.Other stories play with contemporary mythic tropes—genetic engineering, trying to escape the future, the viciousness of adolescent ostracism—to showcase how modern humans are subject to the same capriciousness that obsessed the Greeks. Haddon's tales cover a vast range, from the mythic to the domestic, from ancient Greece to the present day, from stories about love to stories about cruelty, from battlefields to bed and breakfasts, from dogs in space to doors between worlds—all of them bound together by a profound sympathy and an understanding of how human beings act and think and feel when pushed to the very edge. Throughout Haddon's supple prose, he showcases his astonishing powers of observation, of both the physical world and the workings of the psyche. His vision is clear-eyed, but always resolutely empathetic.","brand":"READERS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358931869811,"sku":"9781529929188","price":215.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/19713603482732.jpg?v=1789654019"},{"product_id":"9781529979701","title":"The Porpoise","description":"Shakespeare's Pericles is transformed by Mark Haddon into a vivid, breathtaking adventure that zooms between antiquity and the present day.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358979874931,"sku":"9781529979701","price":266.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/20218733482732.jpg?v=1789920104"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.co.za\/collections\/mark-haddon-books.oembed","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}